THE INFERIORITY FEELING OF RUBY CHADWICK
IN ANNA KING’S
RUBY CHADWICK:
AN INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH
RESEARCH PAPER
Submitted as a Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Getting Bachelor Degree of Education
in English Department
by
NINIK ARI ASTUTI A. 320 000 340
SCHOOL OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF SURAKARTA
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Study
Every human life is full of problems. Sometimes it becomes complex and creates the personality of human life. The problems are very various. There are internal factor and external factor. The problem is from internal factor such as frustration or inferior feeling and external factor is from environment. In the internal factor there is inferiority feeling. Inferiority feeling means feeling weak and unskilled in the face of tasks that need to be completed and by this feeling human being forces to compensate it. Human beings have feeling of inferior at some point of their life and they attempts to compensate for the preserve of this feeling. The feeling influences the human beings style of life, the manner in which to over come the presence of inferiority. Human beings will conduct their compensation in different way depending on the goal that wants to be reached out.
Ruby Chadwick is Anna King’s successful novel that clearly leans on her own experience as a governess, the feeling of humiliation produced in her and a wish fulfillment. Ruby Chadwick tends to concentrate to more feeling intensity. Anna King was a female novelist who lived in the Victorian age. In the making of the novel she related the condition of lives especially the physical condition of women life in the Victorian age.
Anna King is one of the novelists in the nineteenth century. She was born on January 11, 1861 at Mercy hospital in London. Ruby Chadwick is one of literary works and Ruby Chadwick is a novel with the happy ending. The other Anna King work is Life is Just of Cherries published in 1893.
Ruby Chadwick was published in 1887 having 281 pages divided into
Based on the facts that literature is a mirror of the human’s life in the world, the writer tries to analyze the problem of the Ruby Chadwick by using individual psychological approach focusing on the inferiority feeling of Ruby
Chadwick to influence her personality.
B. Literary Review
As far as the writer knows, there is one researcher who analyzes The
women struggle by Anna King using Feminist Approach. Kristanti (2005)
analyzes about a methodology, a more complex way of thinking about and action upon the condition of your life. In her research she used Mandell theory. The present writer analyzes the novel by using different approach, that is psychological approach.
C. Problem Statement
Regarding to the research background, the problem statement of this study is as follows, “How does the inferiority feeling of Ruby Chadwick
influence her personality in Anna King’s Ruby Chadwick.”
D. Limitation of the Study
1. To analyze the novel based on its structural elements, by finding character and characterization, setting, point of view, plot and theme.
2. To analyze the novel based on individual psychological perspective.
F. Benefit of the Study
The benefits that expected from this stud y are as follows: 1. Theoretical Benefit
To give contributions to the development of the larger body of knowledge, especially in the study of Anna King’s Ruby Chadwick and the aspects of individual psychological study.
2. Practical Benefit
This study is expected to give deeper understanding about the novel especially in individual psychological perspectives.
G. Research Method
1. Type of the Research
The writer uses descriptive qualitative type, the research object in this study is Anna King’s Ruby Chadwick.
2. Type of the Data and the Data Sources
a. Primary Data Source
b. Secondary Data Source
The secondary data sources include different materials related to the study such as some books of psychology and theory of literary books. 3. Technique of the Data Collection
The method uses for collecting data is library research. The first step is reading novel and other books that are connected to research, then finding out the important data and arranging data into several parts based on its classification and finally selecting them by rejecting the irrelevant sources, which doesn’t have important information to support the topic of the study.
4. Technique of the Data Analysis
In this research, the writer uses descriptive analysis. This begins with the author and then the structural analysis of the work in the psychological perspective.
H. Paper Organization
